Jul 10, 2025  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

CHB 605LEC - Res Meth-Com Health & HB


A doctoral level course designed to provide you with a broad overview of issues related to engaging in research in the interdisciplinary science of health behavior and community health. The central focus of the course is the interplay of theory development and empirical testing in health behavior and community health research. The major topics addressed will include understanding key elements of conducting research such as how hypotheses are developed, design of empirical research, practical issues related to conducting research, and thinking about the role of research design in data analysis and interpretation. In addition, ethical issues, research presentation, and writing will be covered. At the end of the course, you should have developed a set of practical skills necessary to both conduct your own high quality research and to effectively evaluate the research conducted by other health behavior scientists. 

Credits: 3